The Road To Hell is Paved With Good Intentions
Virginian power utility Dominion Power has been placing obstacle after obstacle in the path of a volunteer-constructed massive solar energy array built at the Performing Arts Theatre of Franklin Park, allowing 280Kw hours of power per day to go to waste for almost seven years. It’s simply a disgrace. You want to be encouraging people to assemble large solar grids wherever it’s reasonable, and allow them to buy and sell energy to the grid and to each other. Allow people to set up communal power grids that don’t charge each other at all, but, like apartment-building-wide-wifi networks, just share the load as an investment by an entire community. Because several nodes in the apartment building have their own internet connections, the load can be shared out across them all and much of the actual data traffic is local to the network, keeping costs down. Widespread deployment of grid connected solar arrays and power storage systems really do have the potential to reduce our power use by 90%.
What they don’t do is clean up the mess we’ve made so far, and that’s where you still need trees. — DS
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